CLEARWATER — Shawn Lons­dale, who carried on a one-man crusade against Scientology in 2006, was “sick, depressed, broke and tired of it all” when he took his life in February, according to a suicide note released Friday.

Police discovered him on Feb. 16, a garden hose stretching from the exhaust pipe of his car into a window of his home at 510 N Lincoln Ave.

Online speculation coursed through anti-Scientology circles that he did not kill himself. On Friday, however, police officially ruled his death a suicide.